ASUS Zenbook UX305 compatability

[RehabMan]

RehabMan,

When you have some time to spare, please take a look at the attached file to see if you can identify root cause. Iv'e been through all logs and the best I can do is isolate first occurrence. Problem I can't wipe this install it is tied to a beta updater.

Johns-MacBook:~ jqp$ grep -r 'OSUnserializeXML: syntax error' /var/log/system.log
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 02:40:42 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 02:58:11 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 03:03:13 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 03:16:22 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 03:56:41 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 05:51:06 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 15:19:56 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 15:37:12 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
/var/log/system.log:Jul 17 15:48:09 Johns-MacBook kernel[0]: OSUnserializeXML: syntax error near line 1
Johns-MacBook:~ jqp

jhawk

No idea. Something in the kernel (the kernel itself or a kext) is trying to unserialize (read) some XML with OSUnserializeXML. The XML it is trying to read is not valid XML.

 

[jhawk]

No idea. Something in the kernel (the kernel itself or a kext) is trying to unserialize (read) some XML with OSUnserializeXML. The XML it is trying to read is not valid XML.

Thanks, I couldn't identify it either. Iv'e looked at events prior to see if that would yield fruit and nothing. Funny thing about this I was looking for a memory leak that failed to exist and find this little pain in the posterior. Have a good day

jhawk

 

[RehabMan]

Thanks, I couldn't identify it either. Iv'e looked at events prior to see if that would yield fruit and nothing. Funny thing about this I was looking for a memory leak that failed to exist and find this little pain in the posterior. Have a good day

jhawk

Could be an invalid Info.plist somewhere.

kextcache might show you:

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions && sudo kextcache -u /

 

[jhawk]

RehabMan,

Three install later I finally tracked that bugger down. It was OneDrive from Microsoft. Fingers crossed if it stays good I can rebuild the ALS stuff I got use to it doing it's thing especially on my night time projects. Strange, I never noticed how mush flare you get from white backgrounds until the ALS dropped the brightness. Thanks for the help this was a pain.

jhawk

 

[RehabMan]

RehabMan,

Three install later I finally tracked that bugger down. It was OneDrive from Microsoft. Fingers crossed if it stays good I can rebuild the ALS stuff I got use to it doing it's thing especially on my night time projects. Strange, I never noticed how mush flare you get from white backgrounds until the ALS dropped the brightness. Thanks for the help this was a pain.

jhawk

Hmm.. no problem with OneDrive here.

 

[jhawk]

Hmm.. no problem with OneDrive here.

That's what made it hard to find two other install work fine with it beta and Yosemite However, this machine did have an incident where OneDrive popped up a message about a file. I just zipped it and all was well I thought. Never gave it another thought. But it makes me leery of OneDrive. The file in question was a mac script. I'll sign in to this account on OneDrive in Windows 10 and clean it up before I try again. FYI Windows 10 RTM also leaves behind in /EFI 'BOOTSECT.BAK' build# 10240

jhawk

 

[jhawk]

what's New: Added Ambient Light Sensing and new Asus Lid Close patch (sleep).

Contained herein are the patches, kext and NewFastLanePackage. If you built your own DSDT/SSDT then you will need Kexts and Patches. FastLanePackage user will use NewFastLanePackages-ALS. All users need kexts and need to remove kext described in READ_Me.

For convenience everthing is contained in NewFastLanePackageALS-Master. Please read the READ_ME in each package for additional information. REF: Fn+A enables/disable ALS by default it is on.

jhawk

 

[jhawk]

RehabMan,

Ref: ALS patches

I know we have at least one person who had high definition graphics > 1920x1080 on Asus that should include a backlight keyboard the patches support 16 levels of keyboard backlight via ALS. If you converse with any of them. I wish we had backlight keyboards..

jhawk

 

[RehabMan]

... FYI Windows 10 RTM also leaves behind in /EFI 'BOOTSECT.BAK' build# 10240

Not sure why it would matter for UEFI boot. It is just a file...

 

[RehabMan]

RehabMan,

Ref: ALS patches

I know we have at least one person who had high definition graphics > 1920x1080 on Asus that should include a backlight keyboard the patches support 16 levels of keyboard backlight via ALS. If you converse with any of them. I wish we had backlight keyboards..

jhawk

OS X has special support for the keyboard backlight, although it doesn't seem to be in a separate driver like internal screen backlight. It is probably buried inside the keyboard driver.

I'm surprised there is no keyboard backlight on this Ultra... makes it a no-go for me. I guess they had to cut costs somewhere.